Vannissa

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Art- Grade 1- Unit 4

How, why, and when do we work together to make art?

We found out that working together takes many social skills including compromise, cooperation, and good communication.  We worked together not just to create art, but also to investigate new art skills, brainstorm ideas for artworks, and evaluate our artworks.  Using the “Creative Cycle” helped us to record our process of art making each time we worked with a new group.  
Click here to see a video of me working collaboratively to make art.

Unit 4 Music: Animal Songs

My song is about a frog.  In my song the frog is jumping, swimming, noisy, sneaking, still and eating.



Personal Histories

Where We Are In Place And Time

Butterfly Garden -What changes did we see?

Sharing the Planet

I wrote a report on Lion fish.

I researched information and created a diorama to show the environment my sea animal lives in. 

Unit 3: Music and Drama - Express Yourself
During our music time, explored mime and music and how they connect to emotions.


I am showing sadness with mime.



We chose to use our bodies to create music for an emotion.  Can you guess the emotion?

Art- Grade 1- Unit 3

How can I make connections between my emotions and my artistic creations?  During my 3rd unit in art, I explored ways of planning and creating abstract sculptures to express different emotional experiences from my life.  I used lines, shapes and colors that represented my feelings using a variety of art materials.  I also learned how to use mindfulness exercises to connect to my emotions using my mind and body.  Here are some examples of my art making throughout this unit of inquiry:

"This artwork is about Mr. Surprised. In Mr. Surprised's day, the low one he sees something amazing in the TV. Then the medium is he so very surprised at his artwork. Surprise Birthday is the high one. I showed the emotion by using the patterns make me feel surprised. And the medium surprise have only 2 colors so I get only medium surprise. So the one pattern I got so low surprise because have don't have more colors. Then the pasta makes me more surprised because it can be like a gate. If we have a lot of children and they want to run so we put a gate on it. The wire is where the children play when they come. Sometimes they want to go to the bigger one and maybe their parent don't want them to go. The feathers make me feel surprise becuase they're so fluffy and you can touch it. The 2 gates are the one who open and close so if somebody try to go inside at nighttime, the gate is locked and no one can go inside unless they have a key. Also the window they can sneak inside and play more fun."

My Diamante Poem

Happiness

Yellow, Excited

Smiling, Laughing, Playing

Cat, Dog, Duckling, Turkey

Eating, Swimming, Drawing

Pink, Purple

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By Vannissa


My Crazy Hair

Shapes are everywhere!

Now we are extending our shapes investigation to 3D.

We have been exploring 2D Shapes. Look at the different shapes we found around our school.

Art- Grade 1- Unit 2

What inspires artists to create?  This is the question we asked in art this unit.  I chose a book that inspired me from the library.  Then I mapped out words, colors, lines, and shapes to describe my inspiration picture.  I used this plan to create an abstract glue and chalk artwork connected to my inspiration.  Here are some pictures of my art making process:

Music, Unit 2: Artistic Me

After choosing our picture for our inspiration, we thought about words that described our picture, words that said what the picture was doing and what was in the picture.  We then tried to give these words musical sounds.  Below is our composition that was inspired by our picture.  You can find the picture I chose in my music book.

COMMUNICATION

We found different ways that we can communicate to each other.